What would be in the interest of preventing an otherwise formidable instance without the means.

Friday, May 28, 2010

How to Train Your Girl with a Dragon Tattoo

They: Hey Drew, I have this outline for a script. You're going to love it.[Maduka rolls his eyes and puts on headphones so he doesn't have to listen to this again.]Drew: I don't want an outline. I want a beat sheet.They: ?Drew: Have you read Save the Cat?They: No. What's that?Drew: It's the last book on screenwriting you'll ever need.They: Is that true?Drew: Well, you have to understand the 5-point finale, and that's actually in the third Save the Cat book. But luckily you can read about that on Blake's blog so arguably you don't need "Save the Cat Strikes Back". So yeah, it's the last book on screenwriting you'll ever need.They: I read the Syd Field.Drew: Not good enough. You know the part in the middle where Syd is kind of vague?They: The middle of the book, or the middle of the screenplay?Drew: Both.They: Yeah.Drew: Blake's Save the Cat isn't like that. There's a really specific beat sheet to follow. With page numbers for each beat and everything.They: A beat sheet sounds really restrictive.Drew: It's actually freeing instead. You can do anything you want within the structure. And your screenplay will be vastly better.They: Do you have a copy of the book I can borrow?Drew: I gave away my last copy. But we can go around the corner to B. Dalton and get one right now. You're going to want to own it for reference.*****I may have mentioned this before but these Eiko lamps are 85 watts (what they like to think of as the equivalent of 320 watts of incandescent) of pure love.

What This Is

I started this blog to keep notes on a show I was sound designing. It was an off-Broadway musical which has long since closed. This blog serves as my Internet notebook, so it can be pretty random. By that I mean it's really really random. It is also not "safe for work" (unless, of course, you work in France.)

Also, I've now split up my blogs so that this is my "personal" one, and there's another for my film company and for my band.